The Reader’s Corner

The 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award winner was announced yesterday, and it is Sherman Alexie’s War Dances! The other four finalists were: Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna, Lorraine M. Lopez for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories, Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stairs, and Colson Whitehead for Sag Harbor.
In children’s literature news, David Almond was [...]

The 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced on June 2, 2009. Presented annually since 1967, these awards honor excellence in children’s and young adult literature and are given in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book.
The 2009 winners are:
Fiction and Poetry - Nation by Terry Pratchett. A young adult novel about two [...]